Draft Interpretive Plan Join the adventure! - Captain John Smith ...

Urban and Suburban Audiences
5 More than 80% of the U.S. population lives in urban or suburban areas. 6 Metro residents
are more likely to participate in picnicking, viewing and photographing wildlife,
swimming in lakes and streams, and day hiking.
Generational Variations
Generational variations should be considered when planning and developing interpretive
programs, media, and visitor services. Pollster John Zogby profiles our nation’s varied
generations:
7 “Don’t write off the Private Generation (born 1926-45). They’ve got decades of
healthy living ahead of them, and they’re going to fill those golden years with
volunteering, mentoring, and lifelong learning opportunities.
Woodstockers (born 1946-64) will finally get tired of trying to look and act like
their children. This is a generation that needs a second act – something with more social
utility than an endless obsession with self. Write the script, and they will come.
Nikes (born 1965-78) made ‘Just Do It’ their mantra, but as they age, they’re
going to bond with their own families as no generation before them has, and they are
going to spearhead the search for greater fulfillment that the Secular Spiritualists - those
who believe that the American dream is measured in spiritual, not material, fulfillment –
have begun.
First Globals (born 1979-90) are ready to go anywhere, experience everything,
and work and live in exotic places; and they pillage cyberspace for information that will
allow them to do all those things. If you can’t market successfully to this amazing crew,
find another line of work.”
Universal Accessibility
The National Park Service is committed to providing access to the widest cross section of
the public. Relying on regulatory guidance, the NPS works to make facilities, programs,
services and employment accessible and usable by all people, including those with
disabilities.
To reflect this policy, a high priority will be given to making Trail-related programs,
services, facilities and employment opportunities universally accessible. The NPS
acknowledges that partner agencies and organizations operate under a variety of legal
mandates regarding accessibility, however, all practicable measures to ensure reasonable
accessibility will be employed in Trail-related projects. In choosing among methods of
providing accessibility, higher priority will be given to methods that offer programs and
activities in the most integrated setting appropriate. Special, separate, or alternative
facilities, programs, or services will be provided only when existing ones cannot
5 Hobbs and Stoops, 2002
6 Cordell, and others, 2005
7 Zogby, The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream
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